what's going on to all my apple tv plus fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files
elliott back again with a brand new tv review and today we're discussing the first three episodes
of the brand new dark comedy by the name of the shrink next door which has a star-studded cast and
a really interesting story what i think about the first three episodes and are they worth checking
out well we're gonna break it all down here in this spoiler-free review but before we do so make
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once you've seen the first three episodes what you think about it let's talk about the story
the comedy the drama let's talk about our three main characters we got will ferro
we have the world's sexiest man alive and paul rudd and we have one of my personal favorites
and katherine hahn what do you think about the performances but more importantly are you
intrigued enough to watch this on a week-to-week basis let's talk about it in the comments below so
before we break down the first three episodes in this spoiler free review for you all that aren't
too familiar with the show let me fill you all in so the shrink next door follows the story of
a psychologist who begins to implement himself in the life of one of his patients this is based on
a podcast and all of the episodes are directed by michael shaw walter and the show stars will ferro
paul rudd and katherine hahn all right so let's get into this review here and before we kind of
dive into these episodes just my expectations again i am a big will ferrell fan he he does
some movies that i'm not the biggest fan of us but for the most part i mean step brothers
telling you the knights i mean old school he's one of my favorite comedians growing up as a kid
in regards to seeing him in the comm he's also snl so i'm a fan of his and seeing when he does
the drama really intrigues me it's like when when we see jim carrey do drama it's like the
guy can make me laugh but he can also make me cry so i was really intrigued to see will ferrell in
a more serious role yes it's a dark comedy we'll talk about in the review but i was really excited
to see him play that drama role paul rudd listen man i have been a paul rudd fan since i was a kid
obviously seeing him now getting more of the limelight with the mcu and other projects and he's
done other tv shows in the past he did a show on netflix a couple years ago that i really enjoyed
seeing him kind of playing somewhat of a bad guy is something that we rarely see paul rudd doing
his career so i was really excited to see that and then i cannot speak highly enough about catherine
han i think she is just a golden gem i love her and comedy drama romance seeing her recently
destroy wanda vision have won the best songs this year i'm a big catherine hannah fan so listen
i didn't care what the show was about it could have been about three people talking about the
abcs i was going to watch it because i love these three actors i like the director the big sick is
one of the films that he directed in the last five years which is one of my favorite comedies in the
last decade so i was really excited for it we got a drama we got someone destroying someone's life
apple tv plus you all know i'm a fan so here we are starting off with the first episode here
again no spoilers but just my initial thoughts so as a good first episode does it lays down the
foundation who are these characters what are their lives look like before all the stuff goes down and
that's essentially what this first episode gives us and in regards to our three main characters we
are first introduced to will ferro who plays marty now marty is someone who at this point is life
he's be he's coming up to the age of 40. he is very overwhelmed by a lot of stuff that he has
on his plate one he's running his father's business two he has a girlfriend that has
really kind of taken advantage of him and three he's just not happy right now there's a he gets
very overwhelmed by stuff he has like these panic attacks and he just is not in the best spot uh
in mental capacity to handle all the stuff he has going on in his life so we meet him and again
i thought that the first episode showed us that other side of will pharaoh showed us not the funny
goofy slapstick stunning uh funny will ferrell but the more serious someone that's dealing with the
you know kind of depression dealing with anxiety so i really kind of like the performance that we
get will furlough here in this first episode so we meet him and then we meet like i mentioned
catherine han who i love she plays phyllis who is his uh his sister who has her own stuff to
deal with she has i believe three kids she's going through a divorce but she works with marty
at their parents old kind of fabric shop that they work together so we get to meet her and she
her main thing in this first episode we learned very early on she's a very overprotective sister
she always kind of looks at marty as she says as one of her children because he he can't always
fend for himself as we learn from martin's first episode so i kind of like their dynamic
that we get within the first episode but it's introducing paul rudd as ike who is the therapist
uh very charming has a lot of charisma everyone loves him but he seems to be a person that will
take advantage of someone that doesn't know they're being taken advantage of very quickly
and we learned that very early within this first episode and just kind of briefly going over
what to expect in this episode without giving too much away we see that again marty is very easily
kind of duped by people he always looks for the best in people he doesn't look for the
worst in people so when he is introduced to ike who by the way his sister is like
listen marty i think you need to talk to someone you should probably you know get your feelings out
with someone because he keeps a lot of his stuff in especially going through this breakup with his
girlfriend so he takes the advice he meets ike and ike is one of those people it's like hey
we don't have to be traditional i don't have to you don't have to tell me all your feelings if
you don't really want to do this that's fine but hey let's go go out and get something to
eat let's play a game of basketball and it's in that moment that i could slowly but surely
gaining the trust from marty and this is where martin's like hey maybe this is a good guy maybe
i should consider this therapy thing and see what it's all about and that's really essentially what
this first episode gives us is this you're slowly seeing ike and marty the patient in the therapist
becoming close friends and we know that there should be boundaries between when you have a
therapist and the client and there's no boundaries within this first episode i'll just say that but i
thought again first episode really establishes a character as well the comedy again the show
isn't really a comedy as you would think it would be with these three main people that we know from
comedy but it has more like situational kami not like body comedy or just like over-the-top comedy
just more or less just like i said awkward type of situation that these characters find
themselves in and i found that the drama wasn't all that implemented in this first episode but
i did think that the character development was something that really shined through in that
first episode to me so really intrigued by the first episode which brings us the second episode
which we're just seeing now we're several weeks removed from the first episode in which
we see this friendship really becoming something more of a serious matter between
marty and ike and we see that now marty who in episode one was very timid he is the owner of
his business that his parents gave him but he is he was never an owner or a boss that was very like
you need to do this you need to stick by the rules he was very just kind of like oh you guys can come
in whenever you want you can have your little side conversation about your personal life but in the
second episode he's like we're gonna start to have rules we're gonna start to abide by those rules
and that even goes for his sister phyllis who is the sister who can walk in late who can bring in
her family drama to the table but this newfound confidence and control of his life is all thanks
to his new best friend ike so you really kind of get that established within the second episode and
in particularly without giving too much away i'll just say the second episode involves marty who we
learned at an early age he had a bar mitzvah it wasn't the best bar mitzvah for him and we see
ike is like hey how about you have another bart's misfit for your four years birthday and secretly
we see ike is really doing that more for himself as you all will find out in the episode which you
get this is where you start to see oh ike is more of a hymn versus the others type of thing
he thinks more about him than he does about marty about his wife who we meet in this episode about
anyone else is all about what ike is wanting to do so you really kind of get that really kind
of established in this episode as well as phyllis is like that relationship doesn't seem right you
should not have your therapist recommending you to have a party that might be more of a personal
thing so you're starting to see phyllis she isn't the biggest fan of this character ike even though
she was the one that set them up so again more of that character development more of that narrative
more of you're starting to see more and more of ike taking advantage of marty whether it's
finances whether him charging him extra money for their extra sessions and him giving him money just
for like things that he wants so you're starting to see the onions peel and the characters starting
to kind of establish what this story is really going to be about which is seeing marty being
truly taken advantage of by this very charming man the sexiest man alive paul rudd so again
really good episode again more of the comedy beats more of the drama more of this story establishing
itself in that second episode which i really enjoy which brings us to the final episode episode 3
which had a lot of stuff going on number one at this point of the show that really good
foundation that marty and phyllis had is really kind of crumbling because phyllis is really kind
of overstepping her boundaries and getting more involved in her brother's relationship with his
therapist whether it's calling him whether it's her doing her own research we see at this point
three episodes in that marty is has invited ike to kind of work for him in the business and offer
kind of more therapeutic type of sessions with his other employees to get them more excited about
life but more importantly more excited about going to work on a day-to-day basis so we're seeing this
exchange of like hey you know i'll offer you to work for me uh ike in an exchange we see ike's
like you know what i want to do something good for you marty i'm going to have you do this kind of
big job with your fabric company on this theater thing that could be something that could have went
south once you all see the episode you'll know what i'm talking about that could have went really
bad in regards to this gig that marty was given by ike but again just kind of the dynamic that really
stood out to me and i thought that episode three was probably my favorite out of the three because
there is something that happens again between the siblings where phyllis is going through a
divorce she wants some money from her brother and you're starting to see that ike is the only one
that takes advantage of our main character marty marty's just i don't want to say he's a pushover
but he has a pushover and we even see his sister she doesn't take advantage of him to from like a
mean aspect but she knows that she can you know we we learned that marty and his sister come for
money so she's like hey can i dig into the trust to help me pay for my divorce and we see that
this isn't the first time she's done that and it's within that third episode that we see that marty
and his family they come from money and i mentioned that ike takes advantage of people so
when he learns that marty has some money he really sinks his teeth into his friendship and want to be
a good friend tomorrow so he can maybe work his way into the setup there especially when you wrap
up the episode and you see a very familiar house that we see in the very first episode and how
he might have made his way into that house and i'll just kind of leave it at that so
as far as the first three episodes as far as the performances i think the standout actor for me
was catherine hahn as phyllis she is a no nonsensical as far as she doesn't take anyone's
stuff whether it's from her brother whether it's from this new character ike so i really really
love the performance by katherine hahn i like the dynamic that she brings i can see her being
an overprotective sister i can see the the bad sides of her financially speaking and maybe not
being the best decision maker and her choices in men and kind of really kind of you know letting
herself out there so i thought catherine hahn was the standout for me in the first three episodes
paul rudd again the world's sexiest man i got to bring that up because it was just announced
the other day but i love paul rudd and i really love that they casted him in this role because
he is very charming he is a very nice guy that he presents himself in that light but we can see
as the episodes unfold his relationship with his wife his relationship with his other colleagues
his relationship with his other people he's worked with the past that you can tell that
this is someone that can see the weakness in people in regards to oh they give me all of their
vulnerability moments i'm going to play on that and see how it can benefit me so i thought that
paul rudd was perfectly cast in that role because you want to root for the guy but you want to punch
him in the face when you see his true intentions or see to start to see his true intentions
and then out of the three i i really enjoyed will pharaoh's role i don't think he elevated the
role like the other two characters that i just mentioned did but i still think that wilfredo
is doing a good job at it and it just makes you sad when you see people that seem you know even
marty he is a pushover but he seems to be a really nice guy he sees the best in people so i just hate
seeing people getting taken advantage of and i think will ferrell's playing that off pretty well
so as the three episodes go i recommend you all give it a watch it's not again it's not breaking
new ground by any means you've seen this story before we've seen many stories of people getting
taken advantage of but i think it's the charm it's the charisma it's the subtlety of the comedy it's
intrigue is to see okay when is it when marty's gonna start to see yo your therapist is taking
advantage of you so it keeps you intrigued enough to make you want to see more and i i have to
say personally i'm invested i'm going to plan on watching this show on a week-to-week basis but i'm
just doing this review to interact with you all so let me know in the comments again your pros your
cons your thoughts on the first three episodes will you be back on a week-to-week basis and if so
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